Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome

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on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome”
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Three Men in a Boat, published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K.
Jerome. It is a story of three men, accompanied by a dog, as they travel in a
boat up the River Thames. The book was initially intended to be a serious
travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous
elements took over to the point where the serious and somewhat sentimental
passages seem a distraction. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the
narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George and Carl with whom he often
took boating trips. The dog, Montmorency, is entirely fictional.
Because of the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later
published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled Three Men on the
Bummel. Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) was
published in 1900, eleven years after his most famous work, Three Men in a
Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog). The sequel brings back the three companions
who figured in Three Men in a Boat, this time on a bicycle tour through the
German Black Forest.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, published in 1886, is a collection of
humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author’s second published book
and it helped to establish him as a leading English humorist. While widely
considered one of Jerome’s better works, and in spite of using the same style
as Three Men in a Boat, it was never as popular as the latter.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859 – 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best
known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Other works include the
essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts
of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat;
and several other novels.